Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1887-08-27

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men in the country. He is an old thief
taker, and organized the secret service
division Of the treasury department. He
alleges, and prints over his own sigma
ture, that there is o detective on the
force of this city named Raft, who is in
the habit Of arresting thieves, and then
selling them their liberty. Thus the
man gets q salary from the government
for arrestlng criminals, and then makes
money out of the rascals byselling them
their freedom before the courts get at
them. 1t is intimated that the commits
sioners, who appoint the detectives, are
allowed to have a "divvy'' of these pro-
ceeds. If these charges shall be sus-
tanned, and Wood claims that he can sus-
tain them, there will be such a public
rumpus about Washington city as has
not occurred since the days of "Boss"
Shepherd. There's music in the air.
President Cleveland is exceedingly
busy at his country place. He seldom
enters the white house, and only when
he is obliged to do so. Heis writing ex-
temporaneous speeches to be delivered
impromptu, at various places. He is
writing speeches to deliver ON various
occasions, and is weighing every word
which he will utter. These speeches
will be delivered in a blushing manner,
as though he were hesitating for words
to use, but they will appear mighty we'll
in print. 1t has been said that Cleve-
land cannot swing around the circle and
make speeches at every town along the
route as advertised, without putting his
foot into it. But after the trip is over.i it
will be found that he has stuck closely
to his text and spoken only what has
been written and rewritten, again and
again. In order to do the work he has
in hand Mr.. Cleveland cannot we'll
afford to be making appointments, nor
listening to ofice-seekers. He devotes.
his whole time to these speeches. He is
a good writer. He has a strong style,
and a fairly good utterance. In deliyer-
ing his inaugural address, on the east
portico Of the capitol, he did what no
other president ever did. He stood
there without manuscript. and spoke
his piece to the assembled thousands, in
q clear, calm voice, without the least
ruf1e of Ok citement. He had written it
carefully, committed it to memory, and
practiced it before the glass. Republic
cant as we'll as Democrats admire his in
dependent manner on that occasion. It
will be found that his speeches will be
carefully prepared for every occasion,
and they will be good speeches. He will
not open his head, noteyen to say thank
you, to any crowd at any place, except
where the speeches are made to fit.
The Republicans point with pride to
their man Blaine; the ever ready, quick
witted, learned, able and alert statesman,
James G. Blaine, the man who never
needs to hesitate a minute, anywhere in
the world, but is always ready and
fully equipped for utterance and IRA
torical gracefulness. They compar
Cleveland with him. and him with
Cleveland, and then they smile in a self
satisfied manner. But after all his abil-
ity, Blaine is a private citizen travelling
in Europe, while this plodding school
boy knocks the persimmons, aud eats
the presidential PIE. Strange. amt it?
The American people threw aside Stew
ard for Lincoln. Douglass for Brecken-
ridge: they put Thurman aside for
Cleveland, elected this mar oyer Blaine
preferred Garfield to Grant, and elected
him over Hancock; and they are always
seeming to select and elect the wrong
man; yet we have had good presidents.
This man Cleveland is certainly interior
to Blaine, Voorhees,, Thurman or Hen
bricks; yet he has the white house and
the others have not.
The only item that IAN be of especial
interest to Dakotains, from Washington
city, is that the Offices are still held, in
many cases, by rascally Republicans.
There are two fat land offices, each worth
$4,000 per annum, at Grand Forks, and
another at Devils Lake, worth a similar
amount. There is one at Bismarck,
which oughtlong ago to have been given
to Major Otis, but he is teo good a Dem
ocrat to have ever been thought of for 9
place. He cannot get v second mon.
ey in this political race. Good Demo
Gratis are ignored by Cleveland, and the
best places given to mugwumps and
half-hearted Republican half breeds. II
is q pity for the Democratic party anG
for the country, that their official pat
ronage should be dispensed by a mar
like Cleveland.
Hon. J.. r. Dayton, OF Aberdeen, Ii
here looking after some matters in the
land ONCE. He is a large free holder ir
Brown county. He drove down across
lots, from jamestown to Aberdeen, whel
there was nothing there but water ant
whisky on the townsite. He has stucl
to the place and the place has stuck t.
him, and now he is quite q rich mar
He is a genial, warm-hearted gentleman
and has many friends here in Washing
ton. He believes in admission IS
whole or division on the Missouri river
All Central Dakotains are inclined t
hold the same creed. But il there i
neither admission nor division inside q
the next two years you may expect a or
to be raised demanding three states in
stead Of two. Central Dakota is hi
enough to be a state, and Aberdee
would make a pretty site for q state CAP
ital. Didn't you everthink ofiti Civ
1t Q little attention. Look at your ma
and sec what a splendid place Devil
Lake would be for the capital OF tt